A National Conversation on the State of the States' Budgets
First Teleconference Call:
What cuts are we facing today?
What will be their impact?

Date: March 2, 2009
Time: 3 pm Eastern Time
Presenters: State Directors
Steve Hall, Georgia
Mary Lee Fay, Oregon
Max Chmura, New York
Topics:
State budgets as they stand today and where they are taking us.
(a) What cuts are we facing today?
(b) What will be their impact?
What are you and other state directors doing to respond to the cuts?
(a) To make them fair?
(b) To keep things from going backward?
(c) To keep people informed?
What are state directors worried about?
(a) What will it mean to self-advocate’s daily lives?
What can you do to help us?
(a) How are state directors working with self-advocates?
(b) How can self-advocates be more helpful?